Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

AvShelley Sang-Hee Lee

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asian American History & Cultu
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Temple University Press,U.S.
ISBN:9781439902141

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Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History at Oberlin College.

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"Claiming the Oriental Gateway is an important contribution to the understanding of diversity of Japanese American experiences and a valuable contribution to the field of Asian American Studies, U.S. urban history, and U.S. western history." -Karen Leong, author of The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong Chiang, and the Transformation of American Orientalism.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Multiethnic Seattle 2. Making Seattle “Cosmopolitan” 3. Making Local Images for International Eyes: Race, Nationality, and the Seattle Camera Club, 1924-1929 4. “Problems of the Pacific” in “the Great Crucible of America”: Public Schools in the 1920s and the 1930s 5. “That Splendid Medium of Free Play”: Japanese American Sports during the Interwar Years 6. The Eve of War Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index